Friday, September 23, 2016

Using vacant homes to handle the homeless problem

"The non-profit Well House is moving people out of homelessness and
into permanent shared housing by buying up vacant homes, bringing them
up to code, and then renting rooms to people who have no housing. All at
a cost of just $275 a month.
VandenBerg told FOX 17 Thursday that Well House has pulled 121 people off of the streets in just three years, and 92 percent of those people have stayed out of homelessness.
In addition, Well House is providing individuals with jobs, hiring
them to work on other vacant homes to provide even more housing."

This seems to me to fix 2 problems at once, abandoned houses and homeless people. I would think this would be especially good for homeless families. There are long-empty houses in my neighborhood that I would like to see filled with people who need shelter.